LOL!! Maintenance just ends and already a new error on log in!!

[VisionHolder]

ARR status showing the servers as up, still getting the same unable to update the NA/EU characters list. FC members have been in all along.

I wonder if the people who spam their attempts to get in are getting temporarily blocked from seeing the NA/EU server list (basically preventing a DDoS). Did anyone getting this message receive it from the start?

[Kahlyn]

I wonder if the people who spam their attempts to get in are getting temporarily blocked from seeing the NA/EU server list (basically preventing a DDoS). Did anyone getting this message receive it from the start?

I woke up (went to bed when the 12 am maintenance started), turned on the computer, started up FXIV, clicked "start", and hit the 1017 before I even got a character list (meaning I couldn't even play on a JPN server because it kicked me back to start before giving any of the options).

So, no, it's not DDoS logic. If it were, SE's just making the problem worse: if they queue'd people instead of forcing these repeated attempts to get in, the servers would be under less load.